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I’ve just posted presentation on public data and government transformation
By WDavidStephenson | June 10, 2008
Hi! getting back into swing of things after finishing my white paper on public data and data visualization for Don Tapscott’s Gov. 2.0 project (sorry, it’s only available to project subscribers) and preparing for my forthcoming speeches on the subject at the Personal Democracy Forum, June 23-4 & Netroots Nation, July 17-20.
You can get a preview of what I’ll be talking about by checking out this new presentation that I just uploaded to Slideshare.
BTW: I’ve recently changed the emphasis in my presentations on this topic — and the white paper — because of a just-released study from Princeton, which reached a startling conclusion about e-gov reform: there ain’t nothin’ a government agency can do to be more responsive to the public than to follow the leads of the District of Columbia (to my knowledge, no one is in their league, since they publish more than 150 real-time data feeds)
“…we argue that the executive branch should focus on creating a simple, reliable and publicly accessible infrastructure that exposes the underlying data. Private actors, either non-profit or commercial, are better suited to deliver government information to citizens and can constantly create and reshape the tools individuals use to and and leverage public data. The best way to ensure that the government allows private parties to compete on equal terms in the provision of government data is to require that federal websites themselves use the same open systems for accessing the underlying data as they make available to the public at large.” (my emphasis)
The Princeton study doesn’t address the secret sauce from use of public data and visualization tools either behind the firewall or among the general public — the potential for “wisdom of the crowds” to emerge when a large and varied assortment of people use the data feeds plus Web 2.0 tools, such as those on Many Eyes and Swivel.
It also doesn’t deal with the benefits D.C. has gotten by using the data feeds behind the firewall to erase barriers between agencies, coordinate programs, etc.
However, it’s always great to get some scholarly approbation for something that I knew in my gut was true.
Check out the presentation and let me know what you think about it!
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